At first everyone thought they were just blowing smoke, but the debunking of a Reuters photograph by a group of Web sites has launched a fiery online war in which bloggers have taken on the mainstream media. Bloggers, or writers on web logs, were the first to reveal that a Reuters photograph depicting plumes of black smoke rising over Beirut was doctored to enhance smoke above the city. The Web...
London and Gland, Switzerland, 10 August 2006 (Reuters Foundation/IUCN) – Reuters Foundation and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) launch today the 2006 Media Awards, a worldwide competition aimed at raising global awareness of environmental and sustainable development issues, by encouraging excellence in environmental reporting worldwide. The Awards, established in 1998 by Reuters Foundation...
The broadsheet newspaper is as American as Patrick Henry's great speech and Irving Berlin's songs, and in fact going back into history, the width of the newpaper page was even broader. But how Americans partake of their information is changing, led by the internet, and one effect is that the traditional broadsheet is being trimmed and in many places replaced entirely by the smaller tabloid format...
Reuters has fired Lebanese freelance photographer Adnan Hajj after he transmitted at least two photographs from Lebanon that were doctored to make Israeli attacks seem more dramatic. The news agency said Monday it is investigating Hajj's other work and has withdrawn all of Hajj's photos, about 920 images, from its archives as a precaution. Hajj's career with Reuters unraveled Saturday after...
LONDON, Aug. 6 — When Metro International, a publisher of free newspapers, moved into France in 2002, established competitors cried foul, and some of their workers took to the streets. Four years later, Metro and other free papers are fixtures of the French cityscape, accounting for one in five papers read in France, and publishers of paid-for dailies are considering free editions of their own...
CAIRO, Egypt -- For Arab news media, the war between Israel and Hezbollah is a fresh chapter in a tale with strong emotional pull and well-defined enemies, and has pushed Iraq to the back of newscasts and off front pages. "Iraqi news has not been ignored by the Arab satellite channels' newscast, it still exists, but has decreased sharply in the last two weeks," said Sameeha Dahroug, the former...
(AJI/IFEX) - AJI is calling for an international appeal to respond to the detention of Teguh Santosa, chief editor of "Rakyat Merdeka Online" (RMOL), on 19 July 2006, at 6:00 p.m. (local time). He is being held at Cipinang Prison in Jakarta. Teguh was questioned at the Jakarta Police Office a few weeks ago based on a report made by a group of people regarding a cartoon published in the 2 February...
COPENHAGEN: Flemming Rose, the Danish editor who published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that ignited what some called a war of civilizations, walked into a conference hall full of European and American Muslims here Monday, braced for more of the same. Instead, some - Americans in particular - lined up to be photographed with him. And, though some Danish Muslims took him to task, he said, "we...
Yahoo News, one of the world’s most popular news aggregation sites, plans to launch a citizen video-journalist news service at the end of June that will act as a collection and publication site for news videos generated by the public. Sources involved in discussions with Yahoo News said the project, which has been in development for months, will introduce an upload capability that will take the PC...
Moscow: The Editor-in-Chief of Danish Jyllands-Posten, Joernn Mikkelsen, described the newspaper's publication of cartoons on the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) as being a "genuine journalistic exercise". Speaking at a special session (Lessons from the Mohammad cartoon clash) as part of the 59th World Newspaper Congress and the 13th World Editors Forum, Mikkelsen reiterated that the intention behind the...
